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Michael Petit

President and Founder, Every Child Matters Education Fund

Michael Petit founded the Every Child Matters Education Fund in 2002 with the mission of making children’s issues a political priority.

Mr. Petit served as deputy director at the Child Welfare League of America and as Maine’s commissioner of human services. He has consulted extensively across the US on a wide variety of children’s issues. Mr. Petit also was a delegate to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Helsinki, Finland.

Mr. Petit is a Maine native with three grown daughters and four grandchildren. He holds a Bachelors degree from Bowdoin College and a Masters in Social Work from Boston College.

mpetit@everychildmatters.org

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